Word: foresight
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General Marshall had a long series of bad moments after U.S. flyers, showing a suspicious amount of foresight, shot down Admiral Yamamoto's plane at Bougainville in 1943. Gossip rustled through the Pacific and into Washington cocktail parties; General Marshall got to the point of asking the FBI to find an officer "who could be made an example of." (The FBI, fearful of looking like a Gestapo, refused.) Once a decoder was caught in Boston trying to sell the secret. Once, well-meaning agents of the Office of Strategic Services ransacked the Japanese Embassy in Lisbon, whereupon the Japs...
...finish line, the Harvards rested on their oars. In the confusion, the Radcliffers pulled ahead to the white marker, 50 yards away, but still thought they had lost and began the traditional peeling of shirts to the chant: "Take 'em off, take 'em off!" With great foresight, they had worn two shirts apiece...
...They didn't have the foresight to include a large navy in their war scheme...
Forty years ago, in the village of Kobiankari in Russian Georgia, not far from Stalin's birthplace, one George Papashvily was born. His father, being a man of great foresight, taught him two trades (sword-making and ornamental-leather work), and gave him three dogs, a colt and a pet bear. Thus schooled, George Papashvily, penniless and wearing a karakul hat, arrived in New York, having traveled steerage on a Greek freighter. "lit your position, frankly," said a Turkish shipmate, "I would kill myself." "My God," said the man in the employment office. "A swordpointer!" He got George...
Sirs: By this stage of the game it should be apparent to any American, with either foresight or memory, that there can be no hope of a free, peaceful world without a strong, independent, democratic Germany. The Allies would find the role of oppressor as difficult as did the Nazis. . . . As long as men are dominated there will be Hitlers to take advantage of depression and chaos. The only reparations that we could extract from a defeated, devastated Germany are the dividends of a peaceful producing nation's commerce and trade...